Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Slow and steady...

Patience is a virtue, and for a couple sets, a virtue needed because the gains now are slow in getting the base sets closer to completion. 2004-05 Legends Classics - we haven't seen much in a while - and 1991-92 Pro Set Platinum which has been a splattering of cards here and there throughout.

Highlights:
A few adds to these sets, which is great. The Essenza photo seems off centre - or just emphasizes the stick way too much. I like the Bathgate card if for no other reason than, the write up on the back includes noting he won a Stanley Cup with the Maple Leafs...hard to remember that some players actually did that back in the day.

The rest
Keepers:
The Stanley Cup Centennial card is very nice, even for early 90s Upper Deck which was otherwise quite standard. Add in the not often seen 2006-07 OPC and some mid 00s SPx, and these are some decent keepers.

Traders:
More dupe 2007-08 Upper Deck, but my favorite here is the Casey card. This is a great goalie card photo - and more centres than Essensa's card shown above.

3 comments:

I kinda dig the photo on the Essensa card. It's different because of that cropping. Maybe I'm just getting old, but the photos on most cards all are just a blur. It takes something to stand out, like the UD Bobby Ryan and Jamie Benn cards from this season.